Word: lifting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Immediate Lift." Barnett's second-string heroics have inspired a dedicated band of Barnett boosters to get out the paintpots and troop to Laker home games beneath placards proclaiming "Fall back, baby!" Almost from the opening tip-off they noisily inform Coach Schaus that "We want Barnett!" Barnett whole heartedly agrees. "I definitely would like to be a starter," he says. "I think I can play equally well on any basis and that I'd be more effective starting." When Starter West tore a hamstring muscle last month, Barnett got his chance-and the results will make...
...guarding him to drive in for a layup. Most important. Coach Schaus figures that Barnett just plain plays better coming off the bench: "He's come off the bench time and again when the club was falling behind or just trading baskets and given us an immediate lift. That's what a great sixth...
Despite all the discouraging news about the lagging Alliance for Progress, the U.S. could find a lift last week in the record of one relatively modest but highly successful program. In 1954, the U.S. started shipping surplus food stocks to Latin America for use in a free school-lunch program. So far, under the Food for Peace program, the U.S. has sent thousands of tons of surplus flour, cornmeal, edible oils, cheese, beans and powdered milk. Distributed by private relief agencies and local officials, the food will help feed 8,300,000 children this year, or 25% of Latin America...
Until last week, Gstaad had only one shortcoming: the skiing season ended with the spring thaws in mid-March because none of the 25 lifts reached into the higher regions of eternal snows. But last week Gstaad's 2,000 permanent citizens celebrated the opening of a new 9,000-ft. lift that will keep everybody schussing on the high slopes even through the common people's summer...
...downturn by going on a spending splurge at the end of 1962. Autos are still the biggest beneficiary of that splurge, and sales in the first third of February ran 12% ahead of last year. Sales of radios, television sets and furniture are also rising and have helped to lift total retail sales for the first week of February to 6% above last year...